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PRESTWICH. Letters patent of King William III, dated 23 Dec., 1682, granted to John Lake, bp. of Sodor and Man , to enable him to hold in commendam the rectory of Prestwich and the prebend of Fridathorp in St. Peter's church, York.

APPLEBY. Receipt given by Thomas Wattson to Mr. Wm. Trigge for money paid for the purchase of a messuage in Eppleby, alias Appleby, viz. £18 13s. 4d. at 28 years' purchase due to the contractors for impropriations and chauntries. Dated 25 November, 1613.

ARDISLAWE (West). Indenture made 25 March, 12 Charles I, by which Robert Grenewood, of Westerton, gent., in consideration of a sum of £10 in hand paid, bargains and sells to Robert Casson of Thorpe in the Hill, yeoman, the remainder of a lease granted by John, lord Savile , of certain lands called Mooredoles in West Ardislawe, co. York.

BATLEY. The answer of Thomas Smalwood of Topliffe, late minister of Batley, co. York, to the information of sir Jefferie Palmer, kt., attorney-general, denying his having ever acted under the late authorities, but acknowledging that in 1656 he received three sums of money for augmentation of his maintenance as minister of Batley. Sworn at Leeds, 9 Dec. 1662.

An inquisition post mortem taken at Heddingley, indented, 12 June, 16 Charles I, before Thomas Hutton, esq., escheator of Abraham Smith, lately of Leeds, co. York .

An exemplification of a recovery inrolled 23 Charles I, between Stephen Netherwood and Thomas Walker of the one part, and James Netherwood and Nicholas Netherwood of the other, concerning five messuages, 5 gardens, and one acre of land in Leeds. Dated at Westminster, 7 May, 1649.

Marriage settlement by which Robert Clowdisley of Leeds, co. York, in consideration of a marriage between his son Timothy and Mary Negus, daugther of Thomas Negus of Higham Ferrers , grants a half burgage or tenement in Briggate, Leeds. Dated 25 May, 1652.

Indenture dated ... January, 12 Charles I (reciting a previous grant of the manor of Leeds, Yorkshire, from King James), witnessing that Robert Rownthwait of Leeds, clothier, in consideration of the receipt of £11, sells and confirms to Philip Dilworth of the same place, chapman, a parcel of land, with 2 tenements, in the west part of Leeds bridge within the manor of Leeds, paying to the king the usual and accustomed services.

LEEDS and GRETLAND. Certificate dated 6 Feb. of a fine dated at Westminster on the morrow of the Purification of the B.V. M., 13 Charles II, between John Houldsworth, gent., William Milner, gent., Edmund Hinde , John Ellistones , and Jeremiah Ellistones , petitioners, and John Rolston and Frances his wife, Grace Deane, widow, Robert Gamble , John Dransfield and Jane his wife, defendants, concerning messuages, barns, and land in Leeds and Greetland, for which the former give £100.

MALTON (Old), WICKHAM, YEASTROP, STOKESLEY, STOKESLEY MOORE, BAYSDAILE, WELHAM, and SUTTON. Grant of free warren by K. James I to Ralph Eure of New Malton, esq., for the above lands and manors. Dated 11 July, 17 James I.

Exemplification of a plea inrolled at Westminster, 14 Charles II, by which Robert Cowper and Thomas Cooke recovered from Thomas Lake two messuages and two acres of land in Pontefract. Dated 28 November, 14 Charles II .

ROSSE. Indenture made 7 March, 6 James I, by which sir William Cecill, lord Burghley , grants to sir Robert Dormer , sir John Dormer , and sir William Dormer , an annual rent-charge of £240 issuing out of the manor of Rosse in the county of York, for 10 years, or during the lives of sir John Hobart , Barbara his wife, and John their son.

WRESSLE. Deed of sale by John Hobart, of Eaton, Norfolk, knt. and Robert Hobart, his brother, to Nicholas Hooker, citizen and goldsmith of London and William his brother for £400, of the rectory of Wresile with messuages and lands in Lofthosom; 5 March 3 James I.

YARM. Agreement between Henry Bentley , on one part and Robert Bowes and Jane his wife on the other, respecting a burgage in Yarom let to Nicholas Pearcson ; 27 Sept. 1622. (Slightly mutilated and in small part effaced) .

BRAMLEY. Letters patent of King James I, dated at Westminster, 1 April, 21 of his reign, granting for 10s. to Henry Musgrave and Margaret Askwith, widow, a licence of alienation of certain messuages and lands lying in Bramley, to James Sale, sen., James Sale, jun., Agnes Lister, widow, and John Lister her son.

Indenture made 12 Jan., 1603, by which Mathew ⟨Hutton⟩ , archbishop of York , leases to Edward Croft of the city of York a messuage or tenement in the flesh shambles in the city of York, for 21 years, at the yearly rent of 13/4d.